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Introduction 
Healing Thoughts* 




HE word "heal" is derived from the same root 
as "hale," "whole," "holy" and "health". 
They all come from the original Anglo-Sax- 
on word "hal" which means the state of 
body or mind opposed to disease, and characterized by 
the integrity or soundness ot all the parts and functions 
which constitute a living being. 

In the restricted sense we have referred chiefly to 
the condition of the body. By health we mean the 
harmonious activity of all the functions — mental and 
physical — which permits a man to entirely manifest his 
Spiritual Individuality. 

The Spiritual Self is always whole, alwaj T s perfect- 
ly sound and well. It is the Christ of every man, and 



2 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

is the Perfect Pattern which the mentality must attain 
to in this life. 

The business of the Living Soul is to manifest the 
Spiritual Self — the self that is the image of God. 

Three steps are necessary before it can reach the 
perfect plane of the Ego or Divine Self: — 

It must overcome the world, prove its dominion over 
flesh, and annihilate the Doctrine of Difference. 

In order to overcome the world we must reject or 
deny every temptation it offers that would cause us to 
err, and at the same time let our light so shine that 
the world seeing our good works will also glorify the 
One Good. 

To overcome the flesh we must find our Real Self — 
the Christ within — and live and act from that standard. 
We must have dominion over our mental desires and 
control them. Living Soul must be subservient to the 
God like Self. 

The doctrine of Difference and its results must be 
entirely removed from the mentality. 

The adversary is made up of the opinions of people 
who theorize about evil powers, and opposing powers. 
The Living Soul must learn there is no adversary, since 
there is but One Power. 

If we imagine an adverse power, that which the im- 
agination images will appear. But Soul must learn that 
such appearances are like the mirage of the desert and 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 6 

will melt into nothingness under the sunlight of Truth. 
"My word is Truth." 

Healing Thoughts are words of Truth. Many of 
our subscribers to The Life express themselves as hav- 
ing found in them the Words of Living Truth, and we 
respond to the request that comes from many loving 
hearts, to have the "Healing Thoughts," of past num- 
bers, bound into convenient booklet form. Herein may 
be found the way in which Living Soul attains to the 
altitude of its Higher Self. The Living Soul must ever 
aspire, must grow in grace and the beauty of wholeness, 
or oneness with its Spiritual Nature. 

The Word is the Power of God, and its judicious 
use, as set forth in these Thoughts, will lift the Soul 
above the difficulties of its environments, — make it su- 
perior to the claims of carnal sense, — free mentality 
from the concept of Difference, and imbue it with spir- 
itual understanding, which brings Regeneration. 

Regeneration is the recognition of the Unity of God 
and man. It is Health and Peace to the Soul. It brings 
with it that even growth in grace which ultimates in 
the Perfect stature — the full manhood in Christ. 



Healing Thoughts* 
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CHAPTER L 

HEALING is a science and a fine art. To heal is to 
turn the mentality of the patient from the error of its 
way of thinking unto the truth of Being and the right 
way of thinking. 

The word science is from the Latin scientia, which 
means knowledge. Science as generally used means 
knowledge that has been reduced to a system so that its 
principles are eternally accurate and always applica- 
ble. 

'Art", is from the Latin ars, artis, skill in fitting or 
joining. The principles of science practically carried 
out, is art. So healing is the practical carrying out of a 
systematized knowledge of what is true, and which, 
when carried out, obliterates all preconceived and tra- 



2 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

ditional error, making it of no further effect in the ma- 
chine-shop of the patient's mentality. 

Healing is a metaphysical science and art. Mind 
is the most volatile and the most powerful healing agent 
known. Mind is Spirit acting as the Word; and as such 
it has been called a sword, — sharp and piercing — pene- 
trating everywhere, so that ther r e is no creature that is 
not thoroughly manifest and tfpenly known before it. 
Mind moves without resistance, because it has only its 
own universal medium to meet in all its course. Mind 
is subject to nothing. It is here and there — in the home 
and in distant Alcyone — unfolding the Lily's chalice 
and moving the stellar worlds — always, everywhere, 
the very substance of the universe. 

While vocal words are framing speech for their 
medium, and materia medica in the schools is concocting 
plans of experiment for the future that will bridge its 
chasms of failures in the past, Mind holds remedy more 
potent than all, a healing for every ill, an immaterial 
balm for every woe. 

Metaphysicians do not apply treatments to bodily 
appearances directly. All ills are the outpicturing of 
mental condition, and to heal those ills the mental at- 
titude of the patient must be changed from wrong be- 
liefs and wrong thoughts to right understanding of his 
relation to the Principle of his being. 

A complete change of heart is needed for the pa- 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 3 

tient who has been imbued with the idea of viciousness, 
in whatever way. 

It is the duty of the healer to arouse the sleeping- 
mentality that has believed in evil as an entity in God, 
and inform him of the truth that good is all, and that 
since there is but one substance, and that substance 
good, the cause of his trouble can be removed only by 
forsaking false ideas as vaia and unreal, and looking 
only to that which is true, faithful and right. He must 
be told what is true about himself. All a man has to 
do in this world is to come unto, and manifest, his Spir 
itual Self. This Spiritual self is perfect and can have 
no wayward tendencies. The living soul will always 
be subject to temptations so long as it believes in limi- 
tation and separateness from its cause, or Spirit. The 
soul does not like to be bound, and desperately antago- 
nizes restrictions. ''Thus far shalt thou go", is but a 
tantalizer, a spur to defy and put the command to the 
test. That is what "Thou shalt not" was said for: To 
start the investigating spirit of the young soul, — to 
stimulate to growth. But the soul must think, must 
choose wisdom's or reason's way of growth, which is the 
spiritual way, and avoid the places where fools rush in, 
and where wise men fear to tread. 

The healer speaks to the Real, Spiritual Self of the 
patient, which the living soul had forgotten or remem- 
bered but vaguely, and the man turns at once from the 
error of his way, mentally, to the truth of his being and 



4 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

is healed. For the body reflects the acts and attitudes 
of mind as readilj as does the mirror objects that pass 
before it. 

The reason why some people cannot yet be healed 
is that they do not believe, — they think living- soul is all 
there is of them, and they thus refuse to be awakened 
out of sleep. The whole process is metaphysical. You 
might as well talk of polishing off the reflections upon 
the surface of the mirror with material appliance as to 
think of removing disease from the body by the applica- 
tion of drugs. It is the thought that goes along with the 
drug, a belief in its power, that sometimes palliates, or 
cures. A man once told me he was cured of rheuma- 
tism by carrying a potato in his coat pocket! Belief 
is good. It is better to believe than to disbelieve. But 
belief in the Right is important. 

Healing and uplifting belong to the list of works 
that in themselves are their own exceeding great re- 
wards. 



CHAPTER II. 

ANY chronic diseases arise from self-condemnation. 
@i When one has sinned (''sin" means a falling short 
of the true mark,) and has repented sufficiently to turn 
forever from the error so that he would never again 
commit such things, then he should banish it from his 



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HEALING THOUGHTS 5 

remembrance. It has served its purpose, driven him 
into wiser ways, and can be of no more benefit to him. 
He should be attending" to better things, thinking- bet- 
ter thoughts and helping his brethren to cross the gulf 
of error he stumbled at, without falling into it. 

Chronic difficulties of long standing are removed by 
fasting and prayer. ''Fasting and prayer" means conse- 
cration to Perfect Principle. It means desertion of all 
outward forms and ceremonies and giving undivided at- 
tention to the Source of Power and of Health. 

Fasting does not always mean going without food. 
But if one is very alimentive it may be necessary to ob- 
serve the outer form of fasting also, in order to reach 
the plane of higher understanding where perfect heal- 
ing is possible. But the genuine kind of fasting con- 
sists in reaching such a lofty state that the body is sus- 
tained by spiritual manna, and does not hunger. 

Faith in Health always heals. Most people have 
to do something, or have something done for them, 
before they can have perfect faith. 

Elisha knew that proud Naaman would not have 
healing faith unless he required him to perform some 
humble office. So he chose for him the fulfillment, or 
outer sign of inward cleansing, when he sent word to 
him, <e Go wash, seven times, and be clean." 

A little maid had called attention to the prophet's 
healing power, and said to Naaman 's wife (her mistress) 
"I would to God, my lord could see the Samaritan 



6 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

prophet, Elisha, for he would heal him of his leprosy." 

And when Captain Naaman came with horses and 
chariots and stood at the door of the house of Elisha, 
he expected some great demonstration from the proph- 
et. But Elisha did not go out to him; he only sent a 
messenger saying: "Go wash yourself in the river. 
Wash seven times, and tb}? flesh shall come again and 
thou shalt be clean." 

I think Elisha knew that this would take some of 
the vanity out of him; so that it might not stand in /the 
way of his faitb. 

But it made the great warrior angry, and he went 
away. He was "chemicalizing." He said, "Why, I sup- 
posed he would come out to me with ceremonies, — 
stand and call on the name of the Lord, his God, and 
strike his hand over the place, and make a great dis- 
play of the healing power. " He thus judged according 
to appearances and turned away in great anger and dis- 
gust, saying: "Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of 
Damascus better than all the waters of Israel — why not 
wash in them?" But bis servants persuaded him to 
"try it," saying: "If the prophet had required some 
great thing of you, would you not have done it? Would 
it not be easier to obey him when he only requires of you 
to wash and be clean?* 1 

So he put away his vanity and dipped himself sev- 
en times in the common old stream Jordan; and at each 
dipping his thought also dipped in that washing of 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 7 

which the outer is but a symbol, and he was healed. 
Elisba knew it would take just that to perfect his faith. 

I do not believe Jesus ate his meals regularly. I 
think he ate only when hungry, and I think he was so 
profoundly interested in his Father's work on earth 
that he did not often need victuals. I do not believe 
he needed anything to eat when he was on the mount of 
transfiguration where he beheld Moses, and that other 
prophet still alive, and talked with them. 

The clear, spiritual vision sees right through flesh. 
It is a discerner of the thoughts and of the intentions 
of the heart. No Roentgen ray is so penetrating as the 
clarified spiritual vision. 

And when Jesus came down from the "mount" — the 
highest mental condition possible to incarnate man, 
that of transfiguration — they brought him a lunatic 
youth. The Disciples had been trying to cure him, but 
failed because they had been living too much in the 
sensual, i. e., they had been feeding on the corpses of 
other creatures, and living in the worldly manner of 
unsanctified people. If they had been consecrated they 
would have healed him. When they brought the youth 
to Jesus and informed him that his disciples had failed 
to heal the boy, Jesus "lumped" such healers with the 
multitude when he answered them: 

''0 faithless and perverse generation! how long 
shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring 
him here to me." 



8 HEALING THOUGHTS, 

"And Jesus rebuked the demon and it departed out 
of him, and the child was cured." 

And then the disciples asked him privately why 
they had failed to heal him, and he told them it was on 
account of their unbelief. He told them they could move 
mountains with faith. He said they could do anything 
— "nothing shall be impossible to you", if you have a 
grain of faith. 

Then he told them that such obsessions could not 
be sent out — that sufficient faith could not be gained 
to do so — but by prayer and fasting. 

CHAPTER HL 

THE mind is the man. 
The soul is the breath, or thought of mind, breathed 
or thought into the body. The breath of mind is holy 
or wholelike, hecause mind is holy or whole. Mind is 
universal, and the soul, being a whole-like breath of 
the universe of mind, is never satisfied short of the per- 
fect manifestation of that wholeness. Man is the per- 
fect image of holiness 

Now the work he has to do as living soul, is this: — 
He must free himself from the estranging errors of tra- 
dition, — listen to the voice that issues from the throne 
of God within the mind, — reject whatever it teaches to 
reject and accept what the Intuitional judgment teaches 
to accept. 

Mind is Cause, Body is effect. If the soul anima- 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 9 

tion is not sustained by the True Breath, but is blown 
about by winds of doctrine, then the body is broken. 

Universal Mind breathes, and its Image is. The Im- 
age, though itself pure, abstract Mind, is called Man. 
This man is the Image of the Creative Principle. He is 
called by some the son of God: by others the Individual 
Mind, or Representative of the Universe. This man or 
Image of the Creative Principle is as right as Principle 
itself. It is this effect of cause, or Perfect Image of 
Mind, or Lord of God, that breathes the whole breath 
of Life into man and makes him a living soul. The 
''living soul," then, is the effect of the effect of First 
Cause. The only business it has in this world is to man- 
ifest its True Self, which is the first Effect of Cause, or 
' 4 Pirst born of the Father"-Cause. 

In order to be able to do this, it must subject its 
ways and inclinations to the higher judgment of the 
Real Self. The soul in body must not separate itselJ 
from its Lord, or Real Self, and act independently, be- 
cause the body is external, and the soul is capable of 
looking both to the outer and to the inner, while the 
Real Self draws continually and only from the univers- 
al, or.Omnipotent source. Let every soul be subject 
to its Higher Power. "Hid with Christ in God, " means 
unified with the Real Self in Perfect Principle. If the 
soul speaks and acts from the plane of the ego or Real 
Self, it commits no mistakes. Then all the thoughts 
that the body makes record of will show forth strength 



10 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

and beauty. People do not have to get sick to go to 
heaven. Heaven lies not in that direction. "I am the 
way, "says the Real Self, ''the way, the Truth, the 
Life." Then the Way is Life and not failure! 

Let us break all tension and be free. Cords and 
bands are external things; they symbolize tied up men- 
talities. Horses are tied to hitching-rings because their 
owners fear they will run away. People are tied to 
creeds because their owners fear they will want their 
freedom and leave the church. They bandage with 
baptism in water when the water of life is free to all. 
They "tie up" with an experience similar to the church 
form, and a sacrament of blood, when propitiatory sac- 
rifice is done away forever. 

The soul must retreat within its inner Self, where it 
will become able to burst every bond, and strike for 
freedom. If the body is sick in any point, let the Real 
Self sever some cord or tendon that is choking freedom 
in the mind. Cut out the crinkle in the mentality and 
the body will respond. 

It is not the "feeling" mind, nor the seeing, nor the 
tasting, nor the hearing mind that is to guide us into all 
Truth; but it is the Spiritual, the discerning mind. The 
seat of all troubles is in the mentality. The way to 
know what mind we are employing, in any activity, is 
to enquire into its nature: — Is it the Mind that sees only 
tbe Good in all its ways, that is above temptation, that 
loves Truth, and always prompts to right action? — Then 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 11. 

know that you have found the "same mind" that was 
in Christ. It is the mind of power. 

This is the Mind that has a sound body. The soul 
is certainly happy, the body continually well, the 
condition heavenly always, when we stand in the Watch- 
Towt r of the Real Self and govern all action and issue 
all promptings Irom its Heights. 

CHAPTER IV. 

MANY years ago in this world's history when people 
were under the natural and unimpeached influence 
of the Truth of their Being, they continued to animate 
their soul-temples tor many centuries. Their men- 
talities had never been shocked with the awful doc- 
trine of everlasting destruction and hopeless torment 
for the most of mankind, while the residue of the race 
are devoured by uncertainty, almost from the time of 
their birth 1 . 

Their faces were not continually blanched with the 
mental vision of a soul hurled head-long into a bottom- 
less pit of d outer darkness. Like the happy children 
yet too young to catch the visions of their parents' and 
the preachers' mental pictures, they pastured their 
herds upon a thousand hills, cultivated their fruits in 
gladness, and harvested their grain with joy at the rich- 
ness of nature's products. 

There was no thought about "old "age, feeble senses, 



12 HEADING THOUGHTS. 

loss of memory. Who with several centuries before 
them would think of decrepitude and age? They were 
apple-cheeked youths at eighty. They were robust, 
ardent, powerful and in their prime for a score of de- 
cades. Think of ''seventy," — fair-haired, dimpled, as- 
piring, loving, — an age when some more modern men 
are "cumbered with" — not "their weight of years" — 
but with their weight of wrong thinking during the 
years. 

All ill-health is the harvest of somebody's crooked 
thinking. Nature is clean and Right. Without are the 
dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers and idolaters, 
and all that are unclean. (Idolatry is the taking of one's 
own crown and placing it upon the head of another 
that is never the one's superior.) 

When the time came for theifuller development for 
self consciousness, they no longer lived as the flowers 
and birds, but became opinionated in their imperfect 
search after the great secret, — the Source of their Be- 
ing. They divided into sects, and then began the inevi- 
table dividing and sub-dividing of interests. Then Na- 
ture sent forth a true model from her perfect mind of 
them — not to follow — but to be. 

The True Model was not subject to temptation. The 
Symbol was made subject only to teach men how very 
possible it is to resist any thought-suggestion of error, 
and continue in the higher plane of thought, even when 
surrounded by temptation from the outer world. 



HEALING THGUGHTS. 13 

All who then imbibe the lesson become great heal- 
ers and benefactors. They had the same ideal of the 
Perfect Self, and were oue in thought and purpose. But 
as soon as there was any yielding to outer influences, 
or temptations they did not instantly resist, thoughts 
of imperfections came into their mentalities, and meth- 
ods were resorted to, and sectism again grew. 

"We saw one casting out evil dispositions, and 
they gave not us the glory," said Sectism. "Let them 
alone, " said the Perfect Model. "If they do a good 
work they cannot be evil workers." Truth is invinci- 
ble, and her work is perfect whether accomplished in 
Africa or England, in Columbia or the Isles of the sea. 
The sectarian disciple wasted his energy in unrighteous 
judgment of a zealous, unsectarian healer, at a time 
when he. too, should have been propounding to the 
people the great and unchangeable nature of Cause. 

Everybody ought to know that the only salvation 
there is for any man's soul is attained to through indi- 
vidual effort and by overcoming the environments 
he finds in his pathway while studying the nature 
of his Being, or Cause. If you are sick, crying and 
praying to a far off image will make no difference in 
your case, except through forcing you to deej er think- 
ing upon the subject. Prayer and "roaring'', as David 
called it, do accomplish that much; they help you to 
seek more profoundly and thoughtfully. 

The Star- Hero of the Bible said while here: — "My 



14 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

friends, there are some things you will have to perform, 
sooner or later, and you might as well begin now. You 
must heal the sick people and teach them the way of 
life, (for sickness is error). You must speak comforting 
words to complaining ones. You must be above temp- 
tation and as unjealous as a child. You must raise the 
dead, (for death is error). You must overcome so much 
in others and in your surroundings that you will have 
gained strength to overcome death in your own body. " 
He did not say these words in just this form, but he 
taught it in his life — by his owd example. 

The people who have been idly murmuring — having 
the "blues" (moral mortification) for pastime, and won- 
dering what they are made for, should be told that their 
salvation is in their own effort. 

And that according to the very nature of Cause 
they must overcome and be saved. 

Cause is perfect in her effect. Let effect prove 
cause and that only, and then will man overcome, and 
health be universal. 

CHAPTER V. 



THERE is never anything to be healed from but a 
misunderstanding of Uaiversal Principle and the 
justice of its methods. 

The "Invisible Powers" of Elohim are the only pow- 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 15 

ers, and their manner of expressing" themselves is accu- 
rate and undeviatingly right. 

It is the mentality that thinks itself limited to 
body, that imagines its source of strength to be cut off. 
But truly the life that is in the body is God-life, and 
cannot be marred or destroyed. Every atom in the body 
is alive with intelligence. The brain is the medium 
through which this intelligence expresses itself. The 
brain of the lowest animals is in the form of a double 
curd. In higher animals knots or ganglia are devel- 
oped on one extremity of this cord. This improvement 
in the capacity of the brain is brought about by the ef- 
fort of the brain to exercise thinking. The elements of 
the bra'n are of white-nerve-fibre, and some gray fibre. 
The white fibres are elastic, and thinking moves them. 
If these brain cells are extended with the right kind of 
thoughts, they are kept in healthy condition, because 
they then harmonize with their universal substance. Of 
this they are an outspoken word, and It must be cor- 
rectly spoken. 

The atoms that make the diamond must allow no 
particle of dust to help them fill their places, or the 
perfection of the diamond will be marred. For the 
brain to be a perfect medium for Wisdom to manifest 
itself through, it must harbor no element that is con- 
tradictory to perfect spiritual expression. Wrong 
thoughts, impure thoughts, vicious thoughts, thoughts 
of sin, sickness and tragedy, serve to unduly extend the 



16 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

cells of the brain, and a collapse is the result. Justice 
must have equity, it must have a balanced equation. 

The mentality is not a fragment of mind. The body 
is not cut off from Spirit, for in Spirit it lives and moves, 
and has its being. 

Intelligence is universal; and though body is sub- 
ject to change, and the mentality capable of growth in 
grace, still they are a part of the stupendous Whole, 
and are necessary to it in order to complete the proof of 
the exstence of Universal Intelligence. 

Vv 7 rong thoughts inflame. Right thoughts heal. 
Wrong and right thoughts alternating keep the brain- 
cells in perpetual agitation. We cannot serve both and 
keep well. Wrong thoughts uniformly held extend and 
inflame or burst the cells. For sin when it is finished 
bringeth forth a tragical end to flesh. 

Right thoughts, if uniformly held in the mind, will 
illuminate the cells and give them the coloring of 
Health. There will be no depressing nor inflaming 
cause at work, but the holy influence of right thinking, 
the unbroken flow of a thought-current coming steadily 
from Life, will keep your minds and hearts healthy, 
sturdy, brave and confident, with unflagging constancy. 

We must be like tne substance out of which we are 
made. In every instance where manifest life appears, 
its mode of manifestation is perfect. The flowers in the 
jungle open with perfect precision in number of stamen, 
leaf and petal, and with tint and fragrance oeculiar al- 



HEALTNG THOUGHTS. 17 

ways to the species. The cells of which wood is made 
multiply in number by the repeated division of each 
cell into two, forever. It is Nature's way. Not in any 
manner optional, but necessary, because Nature's way 
of manifesting is perfect. It cannot change. Its har- 
mony cannot be brolren. If the rose bush tries to bring- 
forth crystals, it fails to manifest harmony, and must 
resume its manifestation of roses before it can become 
harmonious with the methods of Perfect Principle. 
Many people in tryiug to be natural, become unnatural. 
It is because they try to be like something they have 
gathered from the outside instead of conforming their 
lives to the Perfect Life within and everywhere. He 
who is persuaded by anything outside, however attrac- 
tive, to do things he knows within the depths of his 
own being to be wrong, is simply kindling the fires of 
discord that will show forth sooner or later in the flesh. 

Any disease is healed when, through chastise- 
ment or through wisdom, the person is lifted above the 
plane where the act that caused the disease is no more 
possible to him. 

Sin is never forgiven. It cannot be. There are but 
two ways of removing obligation: first, by paying the 
debt; second, by the discontinuance of both sin and sac- 
rifice. This does not blot out past transgressions, but 
nullifies their further progress in effect. Jesus did not 
attempt to pay other people's just debts. Innocence 
could not suffer, if suffering is caused by sin, unless it 



18 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

could take the actual guilt of the sinner, which condi- 
tion would then render suffering necessary and a natu- 
ral process on his own account. But since suffering for 
the guilty has not proved efficient in purifying or heal- 
ing the sinner, it follows that the guilt was not trans- 
ferred to the innocent, and therefore the innocent could 
have nothing to occasion suffering and could not atone 
for sin. 

We save ourselves by harmonizing our lives with 
the Principle of Right that is everywhere. It is the on- 
ly way. We do this by thinking such thoughts as can 
be fitted into this Perfect Principle of Justice. 

Wrong thoughts are to be denied, and good 
thoughts established, so that every act is prompted by 
a pure, true motive. 

CHAPTER VL 

JDLT-ONE-MENT means the 1 removal of supposed 
**■ differences. 

To the one who has been the victim of the doctrine 
of "good and evil," Atonement is necessary, in order to 
the removal of the discordant taste of "that forbidden 
tree, which"— Milton says— "first brought death into 
the world." 

Knowledge of "good and evil" is the "forbidden 
fruit." 

Since God is Universal Substance man must be of 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 19 

that same substance, and really, no atonement is need- 
ed. But the belief in separateness must be removed 
from the mentality or mind of the soul, since mental be- 
liefs a-lways reveal themselves in flesh. 

The mentality has believed itself limited to its body. 
Those who were not careful about their terms claimed a 
soul and mentality as belonging to their bodies. Body 
is not a possessor. It is the thing- possessed. And the 
mentality is not body- bound, for it can come and go re- 
gardless of that through which it manifests itself. 

Mind being universal substance, it furnishes a splen- 
did medium for mentality to communicate its thoughts 
through. Thought is volatile, and it flashes through 
spirit domain with instantaneous fleetness. 

Mentality thinks, and it is in the National Gallery 
at London; another activity of thought, and the men- 
tality is roving West in the Garden of The Gods. Men- 
tality is not bound. 

But a secondary atonement is necessary to the es- 
tablishment of harmony between mind and its embodi- 
ment. Atonement is health. 

Healing is the establishing of harmony between in- 
dividual mind and the mentality. 

Individual Mind is your Spiritual Mind — the same 
mind, in you, that was in Jesus, — the Christ Mind, and 
when your mentality— (the mind of your soul. — The 
mind that believes itself limited to body.) — rises to the 
plane of the Spiritual, or, Individual mind, then will it 



20 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

be atone with its true self, and perfect harmony will 
be the result. 

When the mentality unifies itself with Mind, perfect 
health will then be secured in the physical body. 

The body that shows forth sickness or inharmony 
is misrepresenting - its true self and fails because its 
only strength and supply that come through your True 
Self to it have been ignored. And when it represents 
the mentality — which has believed in limitation and sep- 
arateness — it fails because it is relying upon that which 
believes falsely. 

Soul must grow, and it is this growth towards high- 
er and higher unfoldment that brings what we call 
"healing." 

The body is intended to be the symbol of the Spirit- 
ual man, who is the image of God. 

Bodily condition is an index of the degree of un- 
foldment the mentality has reached. 

All disease originates in the mentality. Mentality 
thinks error or unripeness and the thought is impressed 
upon the body. But the body should show forth the 
/Spiritual mind — and not the unregenerate mentality. 
When the mentality is made atone with the spiritual 
mind — the Individual or Christ mind — then may the body 
safely show it forth. 

Healing- is the establishing of harmony between Indi- 
vidual mind and the mentality. When they are at one, 
then the body may happily show forth the thoughts of 



HEALING THOUGHTS 21 

either, and exult in exuberant healtb. There will then 
not be one imperfection, one defect or scar upon such a 
body. 

Never forget that the power that heals is within 
each individual. The kingdom of God is within you. 

If there is sickness the mentality of the patient must 
be aroused from its error condition, and he pointed to the 
Real Self, which must take control, must have dominion. 

Your Spiritual Self is perfect. When the mentali- 
ty manifests the Real Mind it shows forth beauty and 
wholeness in the body. 

Dismiss error thoughts as fast as they appear. 
Think only good, true, noble thoughts. And when the 
mentality is made a perfect manifestation of the True 
Self, then will body, soul and all be presented whole — 
perfect — at-one with God. 

CHAPTER VIL 

YEARS ago, when our grand-parents were yearning 
to be good and were earnestly devoting full one 
day in the week to the worship of their idea of the Al- 
mighty, they folded their dear, dear hands in prayer 
like this: "O Lord, forgive all my sins. Remember 
them no more against me. Heal all our sicknesses and 
transgressions, and love us freely, for the Redeemer's 
sake." 

They tried to believe in the humility of dust and 
ashes. They tried to believe that their best rip-hteous- 



22 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

ness was as filthy rags, They believed it a great virtue 
to claim guilt, and ask forgiveness of "many" sins, as 
though the accumulation of transgression was continu- 
al and must needs be, which required continual repent- 
ance and therefore continual forgiveness. 

Thus were they continually crucifying afresh 
the Son of man (in themselves, not Jesus as they 
thought, for he was ascended into glory, or, spirit,) 
wherein they might have found their strength, their 
wholeness, in the Christ of God (Reality of Truth.) 

JSFow the one who yearns after God, knows enough 
of Truth to know that God is not only good but un- 
changeably perfect. No petition can make God change 
His ways nor vary the appliance of His Law, and man 
knows that he must do the changing. God does not 
urge men to be good, but God is good and men must be 
good before they can be unified with God. 

"Be ye perfect, " even as God is perfect. Be like 
your Source. Change not from your nature. Be good. 
Be true in heart. 

Behold the Perfect Be ye like unto It. 

How shall we be psrfect? The most perfect man 
yet on earth said, "I and the Father are one," and 
taught his followers to say it. He knew that if they 
would claim their lawful parentage and their unity with 
Good, it would lift them to a higher plane of conscious- 
ness. 

"Call no man your father, One is your Father, even 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 23 

God." Then men, ali men, are the Children of God. 
Being" born of Good, they are naturally g-ood. That is 
why it makes an unenlightened man desperate to tell 
him he is bad. "It goes against the grain." It makes 
him sneaking and cowardly to call himself bad. He 
lowers his countenance and says it's the "evil one, " he 
reckons, and is unwilling to leave the stigma upon him- 
self. 

Now man does not say, "O Lord, forgive my sins 
and heal my sickness," for be knows that debt continu- 
ally assumed cannot be forgiven, or paid. And, knowing" 
his birthright, he claims unity with that Substance which 
is perfect, and grows in grace thereby. Then when re- 
generation comes he can truly say of his spiritual self, 
"I am one with thee, O, Father, O Perfect Principle of 
Good." 

He prays "as if he had already received^' and says, 
"I thank thee that I am perfectly sound and well in ev- 
ery part. I thank Thee, O Spirit of Mine, O Infinite 
Wholeness, My Substance and my Strength, — I thank 
Thee that I am good and true, whole and pure, and like 
Thee, — for what else could I be like, since there is only 
One?" 

Why should men "pray as if they had already re- 
ceived" the things they ask for? 

Because they are the offspring of that Substance 
which contains all things and is all, and they have only 
to claim their birthright. 



24 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

(A large earthly estate will do an heir no good so 
long- as he holds back and sceptically begs for it, when 
the estate is already his, and is only waiting for him to 
take it and use it. It would please his father better to 
thankfully receive it, and stop begging and pretending 
to be a mendicant when he is a lawful son and natural 
heir.) 

When you thank God for health, say that "I" am 
perfectly well. "I have perfect health, ''—not that 
your body has — for whatever the mind has the body 
will portray. Don't mind about the body; get the heart, 
the mentality right. The innocent body is a reflection 
of your mind. 

Sapphire gems reflect blue; garnet reflects red, and 
diamond a pure tone. 

The "I", being of pure Substance, will reflect 
health, white, pure, beautiful health. 

Do not allow carnal thought to come between the 
subject and the object, for it is that which has discol- 
ored the light and made a wrong reflection upon your 
body. You can only get rid of it by denying it a hear- 
ing. Deny every assertion of carnal suggestion, and 
accept only those propositions which come from the "I" 
of you, in the light of transfiguration direct from the 
Sinai of your natural and Perfect Self. 

The right kind of prayer is already answered. All 
things are already yours. Faith is substance dropping 
into your open hand. 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 25 

0, how can you help giving- praise and thanks? 

"Lift up your heads," above limitation, "0 ye 
gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the 
King of Glory shall come in." 

CHAPTER VHL 

TO have perfect health one must be perfectly free. 
To have liberty and 10 have license are two dif- 
ferent things. 

License is limited liberty granted by another per- 
son in authority. 

"When he had given him license, Paul stode on the 
steppes and beckoned with his hands to the people." 
(Acts XXI. Old English.) 

License is not Liberty. 

Liberty has usually been defined as the power of 
acting according to one's own will. But it depends al- 
together on the quality of the will, whether this is or is 
not a true definition of the term. 

The word liberty, from Latin liber, free, is defined 
as "freedom from constraint in one's will or volition," 
and the people have usually thus construed it. But ev- 
idently a nearer conception of the real import of the 
term was reached by Cowper when he wrote — 

"And methought while she liberty sung, 
'Twas only liberty to hear;" 

than by Shakespeare, when he put into the mouth of 

one of his actors the words, — "Lust and liberty creep in 



26 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

the minds and marrows" — although both employed the 
term in its ordinary acceptation — one with the more 
spiritual application, and the other with the physical 
and mental. 

But let us seek more broadly for a true definition of 
the great word Liberty, which means even more than 
Freedom. 

Freedom is reached through emancipation. Liberty 
is a natural state. But no one can have liberty who is 
not free. Freedom is reached through Self emancipa- 
tion. The Self is the Universal Image, the One having 
dominion over the body and its environments, the One 
that must have the mentality of the soul forever at 
work upon the manifestation of it — the soul's real Self. 

In the Universal only there is liberty. No limited 
thing can be free. And the soul that frets itself against 
its prison bars can only know freedom by unifying it- 
self with the Principle of liberty which is Abstractness 
and Parity itself. Spirit-substance — that from which 
all power and command emanate — that in which we live 
and have being — is Liberty itself. On the other hand, 
the man who wearies of bis environments because he 
ceases to unify himself with the spirit of true Liberty, 
and begins a restless search among external things, 
but adds new bondage to the old. 

There is no freedom in the world. Freedom is spir- 
itual, and is spiritually discerned. The men of the 
world who have vowed they would do as they pleased 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 27 

have usually pleased to do those things exactly which 
removed them farther and farther from Liberty. 

Some of the brightest geniuses have made this mis- 
take. Multitudes of men in the lower walks of life are 
making the "mistake" to-day. Their number is decreas- 
ing as wisdom increases, however. 

The Sweet Scottish Bard so hopelessly bound to the 
will of his lower self as to cut off the flow of inspiration 
by encouraging his sense appetites until they bound 
him like a mummy, was tied with the very cords by 
which he willed his Freedom. 

If Burns had patronized the true Source of Liberty 
and had not made the grave error of looking to the out- 
er for freedom, his time here might have been prolonged 
far beyond the briet period of thirty-seven years! 

Shakespeare, «Poe, Byron and a large class, like 
Burns, "shortened their lives" by determining to have 
liberty and by seeking it in an unwise way among out- 
side things, instead of seeking first the kingdom of 
heaven and righteousness, which alone can fill such need 
and make Living Soul truly free. 

Gladstone and Longfellow are examples upon the 
other side. 

Only the pure in heart can see Good. Pure means 
free from things, and free from the contagions of things. 

Blessed are the pure in heart now. Do we wish for 
freedom? Let us be spiritually minded. Do we like to 
do as we please? Then we must have a will that is one 



28 HEADING THOUGHTS. 

with the Father will, or we cannot find Liberty. All 
through the ages men and women have shown in their 
lives that bondage and the clank of chains have ever 
attended sensual willfulness. 

"The angel of Freedom is calling, 
The music is borne from the sky, 
The chains from the bondmen are falling, 
The Jubilee morning is nigh. 

"The stars in their glory are shining; 

The race of oppression is run! 
And slaves into heroes are springing, 

For Love binds the cations in one. 

"Now goes forth the mighty Evangel, 

And hastens the spirit to free ; 
For Liberty's beautiful Angel 

Hath come from the Father to thee." 

"Evangel" is here the Real Self. "Angel of 
Freedom" is the soul's recognition of Unity. 

CHAPTER IX. 

THINKING is destructive unless the right kind of 
thoughts are held in mind. Since thinking is un- 
avoidable, the importance of searching out right 
thoughts and filling the mentality with them — so full as 
to prevent the invasion or generation of wrong thoughts 
— is the thing most imperative in all our acquirements. 

In this matter we have lost, or fallen from, our 
pristine fidelity. Many years ago during the period of 
India's spiritual growth, the term of a man's life was 
divided into three parts; the first twenty five years must 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 29 

be devoted to study, the next twenty-five to worldly work, 
and the rest of bis life must be given to the pursuit of 
spiritual knowledge in the silence of retirement. 

At first man developed his power of observation 
through sense- perception; he applied what he had thus 
gaiued and turned his knowledge to successful account 
in tbe objective world; and lastly he turned his thoughts 
from things material, to realities Spiritual. He natu- 
rally seeks first to know, then to apply, and always after 
this application man discovers that Reality which is 
above knowledge of things and their application, and 
which is the Ultimate that all else has been trying to 
prove. 

How are we to "attend upon the Lord without dis- 
traction"? — The Lord is the Real Self, or, highest ef- 
fect of First Cause. It has been called the Son of the 
Father, though it is not a 'son" but the divine Image of 
Cause. We must not forget in our earnest search for 
light that it was a system of ruthless ecclesiasticism 
that denied woman immortal equity and placed upon the 
throne of Heaven a persona), masculine God and his 
Son, wifeless, daughterless, motherless. 

And if it be true, as the wisest of earth have taught, 
that the highest type of human beings is bisexual, the 
woman as well as the man has the power within her to 
rise to the true standard. Through spiritual thinking 
alone will she be able to cope with and overcome the 
dominance of sense appetite long held to, in both. 



30 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

It is easier to believe that which dovetails itself in- 
to preconceived beliefs, for the reason that certain 
thoughts pouring- down wear certain grooves — so to 
speak — and like thoughts find therein a ready channel 
and flow freely. But it is wiser to reason — to search out 
the way of wisdom though it should require painful and 
prolonged effort, rather than to "fill ye up the measure 
of your fathers; as your ancestors did so do ye. " 

Man's spiritual nature must reassert itself. Divine 
Reason must be above tradition in the soul. Liberation 
does not depend upon outward laws, but upon the occult 
powers, through understanding. 

When will man conceive and bring forth the immaculate 
Daughter, the missing element in the doctrine of at-one- 
ment? So long as man holds in thought the slavery of 
woman to his appetites, so long will Christ be hid from 
his view! Mrs. Eddy, poor woman, might have been 
immaculate if her conception had been immaculate and 
her father a virgin in thought and in life. But three 
•husbands and a divorce make us deplore the facts that 
rare so precisely adjusted to the materialistic methods 
and practices of ordinary people. 

I believe in the immaculate conception. I believe 
Jesus was the product of high and wholly thinking I be- 
lieve that, notwithstanding the 'nay, nays" of the sen- 
sual who yet have their eyes covered with the veil of 
materiality, that what is accepted simply as a dogma 
to-day by religionists, will be the true and prevailing 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 31 

method of reproduction when enlightenment comes to all.. 

It is an Indian proverb, ancient and peculiar to In- 
dia's Golden Age, that, ''He who desires offspring de- 
sires death; the immortal must be celibate." And an- 
other saying, "because thou hast done this thing thou 
shalt have pain in child birth" seems to promulgate the. 
same idea. 

"To attend upon our Lord without distraction," is? 
to be spiritually minded continually. Our Lord is our 
Perfection, our Real, our Spiritual Self, Individualized 
and uncreate in God. Spirit is abstract substance.. 
That which thought idealizes in mind must become con- 
crete: as bubbles must seek the surface, so thought 
seeks form. Tae admonition, "It is better for man to 
be alone, "is not comprehended by the world of to-day^ 
Materialism makes the white light of the sun appear in. 
matter's own colorings. Spiritual lessons are turned 
about to suit materialistic interpretations. The "little 
child" is the true type. With its sexual nature perfect 
yet undisturbed, belief in separateness from Perfection 
has not entered the mentality, and the hosts of malice, 
envy, jealousy, hate and ill will have not marred its 
Temple and the Whole Spirit is therein portrayed. 

There is but one kind of thinking that is wholesome 
throughout. It is the kind which takes the mentality 
into the kingdom of heaven, the realm of spiritual har- 
mony where it practices thinking upon the Absolute. 

Outer things may be manifestations of spiritual har- 



32 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

mony, but the harmony is within. Vibration means 
wear and tear, and no strength is gained from any outer 
thing. So long as man leans upon the outer so long 
will he fluctuate between weakness and strength. This 
institutes the "wears" and "ups and downs" of life, 
which failing to find equilibrium— the perfect balance 
of the Lord — are shocked out of form and away trom 
the delusions of flesh. 

Enter in spirit into the center of Power. If there a 
material thought should enter, declare that all is Spirit, 
and that will help to make people more spiritually 
minded. 

If there a thought of hate tries to enter, declare the 
Omnipotence of Love, and that will help to make the 
whole world more charitable. 

If there a thought of envy threatens, speak the 
word of benevolence, and the shadow will depart. 

In anything, seek first the Kingdom of Power, and 
seek that only. This is the only way to have all aspi- 
rations substantially fulfilled. 

CHAPTER X. 

l^Oi? fear of La Grippe: — I am superior to the influ- 
-*- ence of race beliefs. The foolishness and ignorance 
of people cannot force their unpleasant results upon 
me. I am that I am and fear nothing. The omnipres- 
ence is alive with health and power and spiritual es- 



HEALTNG THOUGHTS. 33 

sence. In this I live and move and have my being. 

I am a radiating- center of love and healing-. I am 
surrounded by an atmosphere of positive health thoug-hts 
and no breath of fear can reach me. 

I am not subject to the contagion of disease. I deny 
its power utterly. There is no power in fear beliefs and 
disease germs. I am in league with all the power there 
is. Instead of my taking upon myself the conditions 
fostered by mortal fears, I bring health and uplifting to 
all about me. I am a healing presence. I am strength 
and life and radiate these qualities constantly. Infinite 
Love is the unbroken Presence. I am one with it, and 
no manner of sickness can touch me. 

The reports of this foolish ailment do not oppress 
me. I deny them. They are not true. They are the 
reports of false states of belief. Let the people be free. 

For Poverty: — I was born to succeed, and shall now 
come into possession of my birthright. I am success. 
I am a magnet for that which I need. I have a perfect 
right to have plenty and be happy. I draw to me that 
which is mine. Nothing can prevent its coming. There 
is no law to keep it away from me. I owe no man ex- 
cept to love him. I am not oppressed by creditors. 
They do not wish to oppress me. 

If I have need, the supply is therefore in being. It 
is the law. I draw it irresistibly. I am the centralized 
spirit of success, and do now succeed. 

All men love to contribute to my welfare and hap- 



34 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

piness. I am Love and draw beautiful, «good things from 
everywhere. 

I do not believe in poverty and want. It is not my 
natural state. I bless the world, and it blesses me with 
its best gifts. It cannot refrain from sending me its very 
best gifts, for I have sent my blessing out to it in ful- 
ness and love. 

This is God's good world and lam a child of God. 
I therefore inherit all things. I overcome beliefs of 
hampering limitations. I burst the bond of hereditary 
weakness and wrong beliefs. I -deny the tradition of 
weakness and inferiority. I need not and will not 
submit to such things longer. I am opulent and free. 
I compel that which is good for me to come to me. I 
love this good, and master needed supply. I meet every 
obligation. I fear no evil and no indebtedness. I am 
rich in resources and shall have all I want. I now real- 
ize the abundance of my wealth. It comes in every 
form from all sides. It flows to me. It hurries to me. 
It comes abundantly — now — now — now. I receive it, 
and want is overcome. 

CHAPTER XL 

IT is the principle of Life men have called "God" that 
does all healing. It is a healing Power. If people 
did not depart from it in imagination, they would not be 
sick, and would not sin, and if they would dwell in the 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 35 

understanding that omnipresence is Health, they could 
not get sick. If sick people would take up the Word and 
use it until it leads thetn into the light of understanding, 
and they would recognize for themselves that there is 
only Life, Health, Strength, Wisdom, Beauty, Symme- 
try, Harmony, and not anything that can make them 
sick, they would get well right away. 

God is the universal Principle that causes our ex- 
pression. It is our Life — my own life and your own 
life — and not anything separate from ourselves and our 
own interests. But it is our true Life, the life we must 
truly manifest. 

This Life we call God is Perfection, is Truth; it is 
unchangeably Right; and as soon as we get to manifest 
it we will then no longer be subject to unpleasant con- 
ditions. We are here in this world for the purpose of 
proving that life is perfect. 

We can do so in but one way, and that is by being 
perfect in manifestation ourselves. We should ap- 
proach in thought this highest principle within us with 
loving reverence; for it is our perfect strength, our perfect 
health, our perfect salvation. It is by dwelling in this 
Perfection|that we become endowed with power. It is 
the kingdomjof Harmony we have sought and found, 
and the point in our lives where all things are added un- 
to us. All things are then added and at our disposal, 
because we do not then abuse them. 

Many people do not get rich because they have not 



36 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

sought and found this kingdom first. If they had 
riches it might prove a curse instead of a blessing. I 
know a man whose mother wished him to marry wealth. 
He did so, without first seeking the kingdom of the Per- 
feet Life, and became a drunkard. He did not know 
what to do with his money. He thought freedom meant 
the reckless use of external things! 

There is no freedom outside of spiritual understand- 
ing. Man must seek^rs^ the Place of Understanding, 
before he can take the proper step in any endeavor. If 
he is sure he has done this, then he may proceed with 
confidence in the measures of any undertaking. 

God does not "come at our call." God is not trib- 
utary to us. God is never conscious of evil or sickness. 
It is not possible for God to change even if it were pos- 
sible for God to be conscious of our cries. 

Man does all the coming. God is already every- 
where, and is already come everywhere. God cannot 
go any more than come, for God is already everywhere 
there is to go. Since this is true we need not come or go, 
but just be still and recognize. 

If you have followed with me you have reached the 
point where your healing is sure. It cannot be other- 
wise. 

But if doubts float into your mentality from the 
dust of the external world and you find it hard to drive 
out external noises from the harmony of your thought, 



HEALING THOUGHTS 37 

be all the more steadfast in the Word. Plant your ban- 
ner in the solid truth of Right, which is your Principle of 
Being, and by it resoive to stand. 

Have you headache? It is because somebody has 
forsaken his banner! Come back to it and u go no more 
out". Let everything you do receive its impulse there. 
For thus do you "grow in grace, and the beauty of 
wholeness". "There is no variableness nor shadow of 
turning" with the Father Principle. 

So long as we deal with the outer or objective 
world without finding first this Light, we find a mixture 
of evil and good; for we believe in separateness. It does 
not make man better to learn to distinguish evil and 
good. It was this very knowledge that was forbidden 
him. It was this knowledge that brought all the woes 
flesh has been heir to, — this belief in division of the uni- 
verse, the partaking of the knowledge of good and evil, 
when God was all. This occurred when men began to 
plant their banners by the outer. When they began to 
think freedom might be found by entangling themselves 
more and more with external things. The Egyptian 
mummies are true symbols of men tied down into quiet 
by cords they have chosen from the external. They are 
their own muscles drawn about them by their false man- 
ner of thinking freedom. 

The Principle of mathematics does not know when 
figures are wrongly written upon the boards of worldly 
life. But because it remains unchangeable, the figures 



38 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

must change when they are wrong — when they do not 
prove their perfect principle. 

To know that righteousness is first necessary in or- 
der to any success, — to seek till we find that perfect 
plane, — to abide in it, — this will save from sin, sickness,, 
tragedy, and every form of trouble, even in this world, 

And "this world" is the place, the beautiful symbol*, 
the ''Home, sweet home"', the garden spot where flowers 
bloom and music speaks and man proclaims more and 
more perfectly the greatness of Infinite Perfection. 

Recognize the holy Presence as Power, behold it as 
Health, meditate upon it as Strength, listen to the silent 
voice of Wisdom and grow wise: place yourself in league 
with Infinite Health and be well. Think upon these at- 
tributes until you incorporate them into your mind and 
body. Be one with the Father Principle of Right. 

CHAPTER XIL 

WHEN you awake at night and find yourself unable to 
sleep again: — "Now I shall improve this beautiful 
time of silence. All of the outer world has ceased to 
disturb me, and I am able to commune directly with the 
Great Throbbing Presence of Healing Good. 

"In it I now consciously repose, and from out its 
sacred temple of power I send forth to the world, de- 
crees of blessing and peace and safety. 

"I need not sleep now, for a great opportunity i& 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 39 

presented to me. Spirit never sleeps, and for this time 
1 am to commune with Spirit. 

"0, world, sleeping-, dreaming 1 world. I bless thee. 
Let all the impressions of care and sorrow made upon 
thy brow during the day, be now smoothed out by the 
spirit of peace and unhindered action of Omnipresent 
Life. Let the blessing of Peace, the peace of God, rest 
upon the people and abide in their hearts. 

"If there have been heartaches, or envyings, 
or hatred, or avarice, or any wrong thought, feel- 
ing" or purpose among the dear children anywhere 
during the day, now let the elixir of life and the balm 
of healing remove all traces of them forever, and heal 
the scar away. Peace and rest to the sleeping people, 
and joy and repose to the waking - . 

"Let Love now brood with protecting - , soothing - , 
gladdening wings over all. May the visions of sleep, 
if there be visions, be ominous of good and fulfilled in 
truth. May the awakening be full of fresh memories of 
ail the good, sweet, pleasant things of life, and utterly 
oblivious of the hurts, the slights, the wrongs which 
have been imagined or received before. God bless the 
world now, the good, grand, glorious world, with all 
the people in it — God's world. Bless the night, the si- 
lence, the repose and the awakening. 

"And that child which manifests sickness and sor- 
row, especially do I bless and decree blessing for." 

(Then take up any case you may have for treatment 



40 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

and give it a good benediction of healing. If you are 
still awake after treating one, take up others, as they 
come before you. By and by, as soon as you have ful- 
ly accomplished the purpose of your waking, fully im- 
proved the opportunity according to your capacity, and 
the resultant begins to react upon you, you fall asleep, 
and, oh, what a sweet, refreshing sleep it will be! and 
how beautiful the dawning day!) 

When one comes to you with a tale of woe, and wishes 
to either lean on you, draw out expressions of maudlin sym- 
pathy, or to oppress you ivith his images of evil: — "What 
you say is not true at all. Not a word you have said to 
me on this subject is according to Truth. It matters 
not what the facts may seem to be to you, it is all false- 
ly founded and nothing — absolutely nothing — on the 
plane of the real. 

"You know better than to allow such things to de- 
lude or oppress you, and you will now rally from it all 
and come forth worthy the new name of prince, or prin- 
cess with God. 

"You are powerful, and not weak. You are able to 
stand without leaning on anyoae. You scorn to be pit- 
ied by people. You do not need pity, for you are strong 
and independent. 

"You do not wish to burden me with your imaginary 
woes. You love me too well for that, and I love you 
too well to allow you to do it. 

"Now go forth and forget these things. Let the 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 41 

dead past bury its dead. Your place is among the liv- 
ing 1 . Be a man, now, in the noblest and best sense of 
that term— a man able to overcome in all the trials of 
life. Cease to make pictures of the unreal. Let there 
be no room for such shadows in your mentality. Be 
glad of every opportunity to do good and overcome. 

"Be joyful of this good world and the good things 
of life, and never, never again conjure evil. You will 
do this. You desire to do this. You love to be a man. 
God bless you." 

(Of course ali this is held silently. It would not be 
effective to utter them aloud, for the introduction of 
such truths through his distorted, disturbed mentality, 
would pervert the thought ere it could reach the point 
of effective action. To say it silently is to address his 
spiritual discernment directly, not depending on his in- 
tellect to report it to his reai self. Do this, and see 
what a change it will make in his mind at once. He 
will often do as a man did in my office one day after 
I had served him as indicated above. He stopped his 
delineation of terrible things, was silent a moment, and 
then added, "Well, I reckon there was not very much 
the matter with me after all. I am all right now, and I 
think I am good for something, anyway.") 



42 HEALING THOUGHTS. 



CHAPTER XIIL 

THE sweet flowers and the luxuriant weeds blossom 
and thrive under the movement of thought as it 
comes and goes, throbbing- with Life. Frost and snow 
and winter are the interlude, the recuperation pause, 
the fast of forty days, the back- ground preparation in- 
laid with glistening gems, upon which Miracle reveals 
her mysteries without betraying their processes. 

Does Thought make flowers, and weeds, and snow? 
Without the Word of Mind nothing is made that is made. 

Last summer, after a walk of several miles, Ralph, 
Mr. Barton and I called upon a friend who lives in the 
"country". They gave us immense bouquets of fra- 
grant Lilac blossoms that had revealed their glories to 
the sun and air and man. They seemed self-conscious 
and caressing in our hand. 

"I saw the blossoms on the trees 

Bend down, the touch to meet, 
The clover-blossoms in the grass 

Rise up to kiss our feet." 

—Ella W. W. 

And now after a frost or two the question comes, "Why 

don't they blossom now?' 1 The sun drops in the sky and 

his rays do not focus on the trees; and earth reposes and 

collects her forces, while the cool airs sweep away the 

too ardent insects from the sheathed and sheltered buds, 

and Nature hides herself five months and thinks. 

Meanwhile the sua returns slowly, surely, as the 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 43 

earth moves in her orb and turns her face to him. 

"With each strong thought, with every earnest longing 
For aught thou deemest needful to thy soul, 
Invisible vast forces are set thronging 
Between thee and that goal." 

"Say to them of fearful heart, Be strong, fear not! 
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the 
ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the 
lame leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing. 
For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and 
streams in the desert. In the habitation of dragons, 
grass, with reeds and rushes. And an highway shall be 
there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of ho- 
liness. And sorrow and sighing shall flee away." 

"Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, 
Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise." 

"And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick;" for 
the people that dwell therein have ceased from iniquity. 

CHAPTER XIV* 

"TjjjTAIT patiently upon the Lord," and the right will 
** prevail in your life. 
If there are, as has been supposed, two opposing 
powers at work in the world, surely the right one will 
ultimately prevail in our hearts and in the hearts of 
those we love. The sprays of discord will vanish in the 
air, and what is genuine find place in the great ocean of 
Harmony. There is discord to him who has not firmly 



44 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

chosen the real Right, and who in his heart does not 
prefer its paths. 

Of course so long as we believe in both good and 
evil as powers, we are influenced by both, and subject 
partially to the one we most believe in. 

The one who sees only thorns and thistles, fails to 
appreciate the fact that thorns are signals of sweet 
roses and that thistles are but the signs of soft flowers 
and their wafting, fleecy down. 

Nature is in continual travail to bring forth some 
new joy which is held delinquent by men's cold doubts. 
Frost makes hardy the perennial shrub by destroying its 
enemies, and the snow's glistening mantle descends in 
loving protection over all vegetation. One calls it cold 
and desolate, another says it is beautiful and inspiring; 
and upen inspection a third proclaims the discovery of 
the working of a wonderful law, — every flake is a gem 
made up of crystallizations. A star of eight spangles 
here, one of five double spangles there, each equidistant 
from the other, so evenly set that no rule or compass 
could quite parallel the mathematical precision of its 
construction. Their form is perfect. Who made them? 
Nature? Whatever made them has displayed in them 
the most perfect Intelligence, the greatest versatility of 
genius, for no two crystal flakes are alike. They seem 
to make themselves, for the forming particles rush du- 
ly into their proper places with a precision that the 
best drilled army might do well to emulate. 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 45 

The world is not yet ripe for perpetual summer. It 
has not grown far enough in grace to be able to call all 
its actions good. The sun is too intense for the present 
development of the people, and nipht veils one hemis- 
phere with a narcotic maze while the sun ventures to 
touch the other for a spell with its burning, awakening 
splendors. But he must leave them to their dreams 
again, dreams of the unreal, while meantime the Real 
watches her sleeping, dreaming children, knowing that 
in due time all together will work out at last the prob- 
lem and find only Reality in Righteousness. 

Then will be revealed that the dream stripped of 
its wweality and the false conceptions attending it, is 
real, and that winter is attended with blessing and nev- 
er with curses, when all the effects of evil thinking 
about winter are removed. And when evil is overcome 
with good in all hearts, then only the good and the true 
will be apparent. 

Evil is only ignorance. It is a misunderstanding 
and misapplying of good. It will not do to call evil 
good, but it will do to say that since the Tightness of 
Justice is self-evident, Right and good are supreme, and 
evil, if it appear to be, must be transformed and made 
a stepping stone to good; for it is only error with its 
saving results. We have had these results to overcome 
with good for the purpose of strengthening our moral 
muscles in the effort. "The oak tree struggling with 
the blast," grows stronger if it overcomes the blast! 



46 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

He who falls in the struggle to overcome error but 
multiplies his false beliefs and difficulties, and if broken 
he must start anew a tender scion from the ruined 
stump. 

Since life is everlasting and this plane but a phase 
or probation in form, it is logical to suppose that when 
rightful dominion is gained and concepts of evil over- 
come, the way will be easy and natural, because Justice 
will prevail in all hearts. 

What will happen then? The study of laws of life 
will be to us a charming pursuit. Then can we investi- 
gate life and being aright. Then will all doubt be re- 
moved and the soul's progress be promoted without 
hindering fears. 

Wait upon the Lord. Let the Soul seek to be like 
its Lord. Its Lord has always been perfect. No sin 
nor sorrow nor sickness is ever realized by the Lord. 
To "hide" one's self "in Christ" is to become Lord- 
like, Christ-like. "Hid \vith Christ in God," means the 
soul that has become its Real Self, and is, in all its acts 
and impulses like the true Image of God. With Christ 
— with your Lord — your real self — the soul hid with its 
Christ in the Perfect Life, is safe from harm. Any in- 
valid who finds this Life and abides in it, is restored to 
health. The Lord recognizes the God-presence every- 
where. Let the soul do likewise: ' I emulate my Lord. 
I am sustained by the divine presence. I mentally in- 
breathe that Presence. I open my heart to its influence. 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 47 

The Lord leadeth me, I shall not want. " 

CHAPTER XV. 

OOMETIME when convenient will Mrs. Barton please 
^ explain the whole of the 23rd Psalm? I think it 
would be beautiful to come under the head of Healing* 
Thoughts.— Mrs. S. H. 

"The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want." 

The author of this expression, after earnest seek- 
ing, and after becoming fully convinced that his salva- 
tion was in his own hands, joyfully acknowledged his 
leadership in the Christ of himself, with ardent song. 
(I don't know who the writer was, it makes no differ- 
ence.) The Lord is the Spiritual Self, the Christ, Im- 
age of God. The liviug soul exclaims in ecstasy — glad 
to remember in some sore trial that it has a Self like 
God— 

"The Lord;" — yes, I had forgotten my Lord — "is 
my (the soul's) Shepherd. " (Shepherd means a watch- 
ful guardian and savior.) "I shall not want." The 
soul that is hid in Christ is protected from all harm. 
The soul that can say this truly, knowingly, is saved 
already, is healed from all back slidings (this last word 
means forgetting the Real Self and dealing onty with 
outer things.) 

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." 
Green pastures symbolizes plenty: to lie down in green 



48 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

pastures means to rest in plenty and comfort. It was 
the rude but poetic way the author of the remark had 
of expressing his glad realization of it. 

"He leadeth me beside the still waters." Water 
may symbolize mental states: 'Still waters" means 
Peace — troubled waters, disturbed mentality. 

"He restoreth my soul." The Lord of the Soul 
breathed the soul into the body. The soul should al- 
ways recognize this and always look to this Lord for 
renewal of breath, for it is this that makes and keeps 
it a living soul. The soul that fails to look to the prop- 
er source but looks to a god that is so far off it cannot 
be analyzed or interviewed, or, that looks to objective 
things as having power, fails to receive either healing 
or support. It is your Lord of God that restoreth you. 

"He leadeth me in the paths of Righteousness for 
his name's sake. " 

Leadeth, not Driveth. "Paths of Righteousness" 
means wherein exactly the Right things are pursued. 
"His name's sake;" his nameis "Christ," "Anointed of 
God." (Think what it must be to be anointed by the 
Universal Intelligence!) In order that the soul may at- 
tain to and manifest the Christ, its Higher Self, which 
is its business in the body and in the world, the living 
soul mast attain unto the full stature of the true man- 
hood in Christ the Perfect Self. 

"Yea, though I walkthrough the valley of the shad- 
ow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me. " 



HEALTNG THOUGHTS. 49 

The valley refers to the lowliness and humility to 
which one is subjected who has for any reason to pass 
through the shadoicol it. It is called a shadow because 
of the negative state of the one whose mental eyes have 
closed so that they do not receive the light of spiritual 
understanding. The "valley" is simply the lowest part 
of the shadow. All sickness is of the shadow, but the 
valley is the lowest reach, and is called death. But it 
is only a deep, hypnotic sleep, from which all must 
awake. Their eyes must be opened to the Light, when 
not only the valley but the shadow will be no more. 

"I fear no evil." This in itself is a healing affirma- 
tion. Let the consumptive say, "I am not afraid of 
consumption for the Lord restoreth my soul" continual- 
ly. "I am not afraid — not afraid" — until he convinces 
his mentality that this is true, (it is true of his Real 
Self) and the soul will receive it with joy and recuper- 
ate and rejuvenate in the inflowing breath of life from 
its Lord. The body always tallies what is in the thought. 
Jesus said often to his friends, "Fear not!" "It is 
your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kiagdom!" 
The Father always "stands at the door" knocking, ask- 
ing you to let the bounties and blessings come in. ' 'Fear 
not, fear not, " but appreciatively receive, and so ' 'please 
the Father", which means, harmonize yourself with your 
Perfect Cause. 

The soul has been called a pilgrim, wandering 
abroad in the body the Lord formed for it. The body is 



50 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

the temple and the eye the window through which the 
soul looks forth upon the outer and ostensible. It is 
well for that soul if it uses the body without abusing. 
The proper use glorifies Principle and uplifts the soul. 
Anything the soul may do through the body that is not 
in harmony with the nature of the Pure and True is in- 
jurious to the body and painful to the soul. 

"Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." Rod is 
the emblem of the transforming power. When Moses 
was about to go to Pharaoh to bring the children of 
Israel out of Egypt, the Lord of Moses said to him, 
"What is that in thy hand?" And he answered, "A 
rod." 

"When thou returnest into Egypt, see that thou do 
all those wonders before Pharoh which I have put in 
thine hand. ' ' And Moses replied : ' 'O my Lord, I (soul 
and body) am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since 
thou hast spoken unto thy servant; but I am slow of 
speech. " And his Lord answered: 

* 'Who made thy mouth? Have not I, the Lord? Now 
go therefore and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee 
what to say. And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand 
wherewith thou shalt do signs." And Moses took the 
rod of God in his hand, and did the signs in the sight of 
the people, and the people believed. 

The "staff" is the symbol of support, protection and 
salvation, 

"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 51 

of mine enemies: thou anoinlest my head with oil; my 
cup runneth over. ' ' The table the Lord prepares for the 
soul to look or meditate upon is the thoughts of Wis- 
dom, Health, Joy, Intelligence, Peace, Prosperity, Good- 
ness, Mercy and Charity. These are arranged in the 
presence of the soul's former erroneous thoughts, such 
as malice, envy, jealousy, ill-will, along with idle, ig- 
norant and negative thoughts, the only enemies the soul 
could have! 

Oil is the emblem of gladness, To anoint the head 
with oil means to make glad and harmonious all the 
thoughts of the soul. 

"My cup runneth over. " Cup of gladness is more 
than full; Living Soul: "Surely goodness and mercy 
shall follow me all the days of my life. ' ' The soul feels 
thus when it has risen to the plane of its Real Self. 
Tongue cannot express the joy of the Revelation of the 
True Self in the Living Soul. All fear is dispelled, the 
soul is in ecstasy. And this is the Home of the Soul! 
"And I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.' * 

CHAPTER XVL 

IN the Bible the term Lord God sometimes means God 
and sometimes the Law of Good, but its most impor- 
tant meaning is, the Spiritual man: the "lam" of man- 
kind: the Ego: the only begotten Son, man: the man God 
created in his own Image when he said "Let us make 



52 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

man in our own Image and likeness." 

So he made man in his Image, and this Image, who 
is the Real man, went to work and "formed" the "like- 
ness" of the Image of God. 

Now the perfect likeness of the Image of God can- 
not be defective or wanting in anything. And when this 
Image of God (Lord God) breathes into its "likeness" 
the breath of life and the likeness becomes a "living 
soul," it is still perfect, being the perfect likeness of the 
perfect Image of perfect God. 

It being the business of "living soul" to manifest 
on its own account the perfect Image or Son of God, it, 
too, begins to work after the manner of its Real Self. 
But in the effort it finds itself limited, or circumscribed. 
This, at first, is the only difference between soul and 
Ego. 

And if soul would do its work "without taking 
thought for the morrow," without "being anxious," 
without being " burdened with the tabernacle of the 
flesh," without looking to limitation or lack of any- 
thing, but would always claim the Ego or Image of God 
as the Real Self, it would accomplish its work (perfect 
manifestation of the Ego or Image) without difficulty. 

That is all the work the soul had to do, — to perfect- 
ly manifest its perfect self which is the perfect Im- 
age of God. Thus does the figure man prove God, and 
that is its only mission in this world. Thus he finds 
free dom, Health. 



HEALING THOUGHTS 53 

Now God is Life, Truth and Love, and the living 
soul must manifest these characteristics, and not their 
opposites. We must manifest perfect life. In order to 
do so we must find the way of perfect health, for any- 
thing short of perfect health is a sign there is some- 
thing wrong in the manner of living. Either the per- 
son is negative and open to unholy influences, or his own 
spiritual strength needs renewing. 

The way of Truth must be reached. In its course 
there are no inaccuracies and all the human faculties are 
tensioned parallel with the line of spiritual accuracy, so 
that what a man says is reliable, what he does is done 
from a pure, perfect motive, aud his inspirations are of 
spirit. 

The perfect man is actuated by boundless Love. 
We have been used to think of the term t4 Love" as mean- 
ing selfish desire, which is the opposite of Love. Self- 
ish desire focuses more and more selfishly to a point. 
Love, real Love, radiates and warms and glows and em- 
braces all. 

Selfish desire calling loudly for satisfaction, has 
always found suffering along its course. Only in per- 
fect Love — that which "endureth long, envieth not, 
vaunteth not itself , is not puffed up, (is not depressed,) 
seeketh not its own; (nor voweth that its own shall 
come to it;) is not easily provoked, thinking no evil; re- 
joiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in Truth; beareth 
all things, believeth all things, endureth all things, "(is 



54 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

not altered by ''things") — is there perfect freedom. 

Love is love forever. But prophesies and tongues, 
and knowledge of things, shall vanish. Love is 
eternal. 

Do you, Dear Reader, see to it that all your daily 
and nightly thoughts dwell upon Life and eternal prin- 
ciples only? 

Are you actuated in all your thoughts by true mo- 
tives showing that you Love Truth supremely? 

Do you love the world so earnestly as to yearn after 
its welfare and work for its uplifting and enlighten- 
meat? Do you love all your neighbors as your self, and 
no more? 

What we are in mind we are in body. If we think 
upon Life and Truth and Love, we show forth these 
qualities in our characters and these conditions in our 
bodies. 

Mary thought upon Holiness until the Holy Spirit 
materialized in the perfect figure of the the perfect Ego 
or Image of God. She was discovered of the Holy 
Ghost to have embodied her thought. And, while her 
betrothed husband "thought" on these things, behold,, 
the Angel of his Lord (Lord here meaus Real Self, or T 
Image of God) appeared unto him, (unto his living 
soul's vision). 

The Angel of his Lord, means the perfect Thought 
of his Real, Spiritual Self. 

He did not know how to reconcile matters until he 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 55 

looked within, and the Angel of his Real Self revealed 
to him the true state of affairs: 

The first thing the Angel said was, "Fear not, O, 
thou Just Joseph! That which has budded and blos- 
somed according to Mary's continual thinking upon 
Life and Truth and Love, is of the Holy Ghost, and will 
bring forth fruit after its kind: — He shall save his peo- 
ple from their sins." 

(Remember Jesus did not come to save people from 
the results of sin committed. He came to save them 
from sin itself, and show them a perfect, a sinless way.) 

Holy Spirit was the complete concept — reached by 
Mary's thinking — of the Emmanuel (God revealed in 
flesh.) 

The moment mind "moves" it marks limitation — 
not of itself — but of the element upon which it operates. 
It is the breath of Life, or, the operative principle by 
which the general expresses itself in the particular. It 
is called "holy" because it is whole or complete. 
The whole Spirit, or, all the qualities of universal spir- 
it, are contained in the "breath" of Life. And hence 
the living soul is capable of perfect manifestation. It 
must manifest its perfect Self. 

CHAPTER XVIL 

OF all the important things I would recommend to 
the person who has discovered a place in his body 
where God is not, is conscious recognition of the Truth of 



56 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

being. Everything- is as actual as you make it. There 
is a way of looking" at things aside from sense per- 
ception. If the physical senses have discovered that 
you have 

"A COLD" 

remember that your mind is capable of recognizing the 
allness of God, and use that capability. Do not say 
within yourself that you have a cold; even though it be 
a fact as to physical condition, it is not a truth, for the 
real substance out of which we are made is forever per- 
fect. Think of the perfection of your Spiritual Sub- 
stance. 

''Spirit fills me and supplies all my wants. Since 
spirit is all, there can be no other substance in or about 
me. I am healed. I am tree from cold and its effects. 
Spirit is like the oil of gladness to all the atoms of my 
body so that cold cannot affect them. I am healed 
throughout. I am cleansed through this recognition. 
I am healed. " 

This is true of your spiritual self always, and what 
you think about, you become like. 

For physical or mental 

"DEBILITY," 

claim that spirit being your substance, is your strength, 
actually your own. ' 'There is no point of space or place 
where Power is not. It permeates my being. It thrills 
me and lifts above the fear of weakness. I am one with 
the spirit of Life and I even now awake in its likeness. 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 57 

I am the Image of Strength. I am the Image of Health. 
I have dominion because I am the Image of Omnipo- 
tence." In the case of 

"NERVOUSNESS." 

Although this is most difficult for self treatment at the 
out-set, it yields more readily than almost any other, 
for the simple reason that the effort is made through 
the nerves themselves, and when self overcomes or con- 
trols self, then self is "saved.'" We are all saved through 
overcoming. If we walk in the way, we are healed. If 
we turn from the way, the old results may return. The 
true healer points toward the understanding of spirit, 
and arouses the patient's consciousness of latent, God- 
given capacity. "I am not nervous. Nothing disturbs 
me. I am at peace. Peace and harmony reign in me. 
There is nothing to cause inharmony. I am filled with 
trust in the Omnipresence of harmony. I am happy, 
soothed, free. I am wise, self-controlled. I am immor- 
tal. I am filled with courage and sweet peace." 

For any kind of fear, say: — 

"lam not afraid of anything. I am safe. God folds 
me round with protection. This protection is every- 
where. I cannot fail, so long as I recognize it, to be pro- 
tected. Omnipresence cannot contain fear. I am al- 
ways in God's loving protection. I can never fear. I 
breathe health and fearlessness. I am whole. I am 
perfect. I am the Image of Perfection. There is only 
sweet, abiding faith for me, because I recognize only 



58 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

that which is Godlike. I recognize, recognize that 
which is heavenly, and I am filled with righteousness 
and peace. " 

For poverty: 

'•God is my Father. God is universal Spirit and has 
boundless wealth. I inherit Wisdom, Strength, Sym- 
metry, Perfectness, and I receive my inheritance as soon 
as I recognize that this is true. Thou art more willing 
to give than we are to receive. All that Thou hast is 
mine as soon as I recognize that it is so. " The symbol 
of that which is recognized in mind is inevitable. All 
ideal conclusions embody themselves. The simple rec- 
ognition of spiritual opulence will materialize in abund- 
ant wealth if the way is not forsaken. "If ye abide in 
the Word and the Word in you, you may ask anything 
and it shall be done." Say, "Thine, O Father, is mine. 
I thank thee for wealth. I praise Thee for abundant 
supply, " over and over, until it becomes manifest. 

For health say: — 

"I am an embodiment of health. I am born of health. 
I do not inherit anything from flesh, fori am of spirit. 
Spirit is my Father. I call no man Father, for one is 
my Father, even God. 

"Beautiful substance universal, of thee I am free* 
born. The light destroys shadows. No fog or darkness 
can exist in spirit. I am of spirit, and I reflect its radi- 
ance, lam the Image of Light. I radiate the true, 
the beautiful, the good. Health is omnipresent, and we 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 59 

can not get away from health. I will recognize this truth 
and then I open the golden gates of Harmony and the 
light flows in and out. Angel thoughts descend and as- 
cend. Thus do I become a radiating center. Thus do I 
radiate health and strength and the True Light. 

"I thank Thee, glorious Spirit, that lam surround- 
ed by power. 

"I am immortal. I have discovered that Thou art 
my own strength. I am thy Child and like thee. I 
know that it is well-pleasing in Thy sight when I claim 
my unity with Thee. 

1 'Thus I recognize and claim universal possibilities. ' ' 

CHAPTER XV7IL 

I IF I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me." 
» The "I" is the Spiritual Self of every man. It is 
the Image of perfect Principle. And if we lift that up 
as our standard and abide iu its understanding, we are 
enabled to show forth our Divinity, — able to show forth 
God qualities: — Life, Truth, Love, Health, Plenty, Hap- 
piness, and Charity IotsM. 

Whenever I can get patients to retreat from earth's 
snares, and difficulties peculiar to believers in evil, and 
find refuge in the Real Self, their healing begins at once 
to become manifest. 

Sometimes they linger, and I notice in their coun- 
tenances that they are hesitating "between two opin- 



60 HEALING THOUGHTS. 

ions", or rather between a recognized opinion and an 
unrecognized knowledge. 

Then the question arises: — ''Will you now be guided 
by reason or will you continue under bondage of tradi- 
tion? 1 ' "Come, let us reason together. " "If tradition 
has brought you unrest, leave it, and hunt among the 
truths of your being for intuitional guidance." 

"You are the child of the Infinite. You have that 
Light within you which lighteth every man that cometh 
into the world. " 

First Truths are those which come directly from the 
Infinite. They are original ideas that spring up in the 
mind of the one who refuses to inherit from flesh, but who 
calls God, Father, and claims only the inheritance that 
is from the universal Omnipresence of Truth. 

Look deep within your own mind. It is your only 
point of close-communion with the Father. 

When you reach the plane of the Intuitional, — plane 
of original ideas — the First Truths, coming directly 
from the Father Principle, then will you perceive that 
you inherit only health, happiness, Goodness, wisdom, 
honor and majesty — just such things, and those only, 
that come from the Father of all Light and understand- 
ing. 

Oh, look up, child of earth and little things. Re- 
treat unto thy Real Self. Know that within yourself 
there is Light enough to make the valley of any shadow 
as light as noon-day. It is your own God-given light. 



HEALING THOUGHTS. 61 

Ask no man for ''oil", look not abroad for understand- 
ing, for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you. 

Seek it, and when you have found it, you do not 
have to seek for any earthly thing. For the promise is, 
— "these things shall be added unto you." 

Be yourself. Be your Real Self. Plant there 
your banner and by it stand, and the waves of carnal 
sense fade out before they touch you. 

You are God's child. Be what you are and insist 
upon it. 

This is the way to find health. And when you find 
it you are confident — you are sure — you are forever- 
more secure. You are free, wise, immortal. You feel 
the airs of Heaven round about you, and every breath 
is the sweet balm of Health. It invigorates every atom! 
it rejuvenates the life forces; it makes you glad and in 
love with Life. 

Then you forget your little ills, and you do not find 
it in your nature to look back upon the dismal Sodoms 
of the past. 

You are enthused for the great future. You look 
forward with faith and holy trust. You look lorth upon 
the fields of earth with overflowing love and good-will 
to all creation. 

You have found your true Light, and you so shine 
that your beautiful radiations inspire others to glorify 
our Universal Principle in their lives. 

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The Bible and Eternal Punishment, proves that the 

Bible does not teach the doctrine, by A. P. 

Barton; 15c. 
Why Are We Here, or The Meaning and Purpose of 

This Incarnation, by A. P. Barton; 15c. (Any 

two of the last three for 25c.) 
The ABC of Truth, 26 Basic Lessons in the Sci- 
ence of Life, with practical applications, by A. 

P. Barton; 25c. 
The Proclamation of Being, an inspired treatment 

for victory, by Declara; 5c. 
Dorothy, An Allegory of the Soul, for children, by 

Erne E. Blodgett; 25c. It is a beautiful story 

about a little girl's travels in Nowhere Land. 
Address, 

A. P. Barton, 2623 Holmes St., 
Kansas City, Mo. 



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